KAIA MISSION FOR HER VILLAGE, AFRICA, 1440Book 1 Girlhood Journeys series In fifteenth-century Africa, Kai and her beautiful but lazy older sister Jamila undertake a perilous four-day journey to another Yoruba village, seeking help for their starving tribe after the blight of the yam crop.

1996

71 p.

Welch, Leona Nicholas

KAITHE LOST STATUE, AFRICA, 1440Book 3 Girlhood Journeys seriesContinues the adventures of Kai, a young girl from the Yoruba village of Oyo who lives in 1440 and who considers revenge against the thief when her fine piece of sculpture disappears.